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Blood, 1 September 2002, Vol. 100, No. 5, pp. 1910-1912
BRIEF REPORT
Cyclosporine inhibition of P-glycoprotein in chronic myeloid
leukemia blast phase
Alan F. List,
Kenneth J. Kopecky,
Cheryl L. Willman,
David R. Head,
Marilyn L. Slovak,
Dan Douer,
Shaker R. Dakhil, and
Frederick R. Appelbaum
From the Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson.
Chronic myeloid leukemia blast phase (CML-BP) cells commonly
express the multidrug transporter, P-glycoprotein (Pgp). To determine whether Pgp inhibition improves treatment outcome in CML-BP, the Southwest Oncology Group performed a randomized, controlled trial testing the benefit of the Pgp modulator, cyclosporin A (CsA). Seventy-three eligible patients were assigned to treatment with cytarabine and infusional daunorubicin with or without intravenous CsA.
Treatment with CsA yielded no improvement in treatment outcome as
measured by the frequency of induction resistance (68% vs 53%), rate
of complete remission or restored chronic phase (CR/CP, 8% vs 30%),
and survival (3 vs 5 months). Blast expression of Pgp (63%) and LRP
(71%) was common, whereas only Pgp adversely impacted the rate of
CR/CP (P = .025). We conclude that Pgp has prognostic relevance in CML-BP but that the modulation of Pgp function with CsA as
applied in this trial is ineffective.

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